Essays on Corporal Punishment

According to Reichel, “today legal scholars identify three or four legal traditions (some call them legal families)”. They are the following: Common, Islamic, and Eastern Asia traditions. Among the countries which represent them we can find U. A. E. , China, England. Common legal traditions...

After reviewing the literature on the topic of corporal punishment and other disciplinary methods of parenting in the United States, the prevalence and consequences of corporal punishment are evident. I will be discussing my findings from my literature review on physical punishment and will examine...

The Way of the Rod, a Paper by Ben Parsons, seeks to clarify the uses and functions of corporal punishment in late medieval education. Parsons states that, “Its focus will be the rationales developed by late medieval pedagogues, educational theorists, and other commentators. Flogging will...

“This is going to hurt me more than it will hurt you”. “Stop crying before I give you something to cry about” These are common phases used in young adult literature to portray people of color’s parenting skills. Why is it that authors depict people...

When a kid hits another kid we call him a bully, when someone hits another person in order to steal we call him a mugger, when a man hits his wife we call him abusive, but when a man hits his helpless children in order...

“A villain truly deserving of this horror of nature in its entirety, condemned to see no longer the heaven that he has outraged and to live no longer on the earth that he has sullied, above the punitive city hangs this iron spider; and the...

For many years the use of corporal punishment was considered okay and right, but recent affairs show that there is a misunderstanding of corporal punishment and actual abuse and humiliation. There has been a perspective shift with regards to corporal punishment. This study aims to...

More than half of the world’s students are experiencing school violence. According to research, about 150 million students between the ages of 13 and 15 say they have experienced peer violence on or off campus. And not only the injuries between classmates and peers, but...

Corporal punishment towards children has been a controversial topic for many years. It’s the use of physical force with the intention of causing a child to experience pain, but not injury for the purpose of correction or control of the child’s behavior. This common form...

This case surrounds a 14-year-old 8th grader, James Ingraham. During the morning of Oct 1, 1970 at Drew Junior High School, in Miami, a group of students including Andrew, and Ingraham are beaten by an assistant principal named Solomon Barnes on account of tardiness. On...